Michael and Lise Evans with their children
study journalism, and there, Evans met her first husband, got married and had two kids by the time she had graduated from college. The young family moved to Hong Kong, had a third child, and then moved on to London. During that time, Evans got divorced from her first husband and met and married J. Michael Evans—the financier who retired from Goldman Sachs as a vice chairman and head of global growth markets in 2013.
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ichael’s job—based in London when they met—eventually took the couple back to New York. Eleven years, two more kids, and a master’s degree and successful career in teaching later, Evans is happily focusing on her bracelet campaigns and the nine kids to whom she is either a mother, stepmother or custodial mother. Meanwhile, the Evanses will be taking the next year away from the city. Lise will remain active in her endeavors, but will do so from Southampton from now through the fall, then Aspen. If anything, she will probably find more influential supporters and stockists for her bracelets. If you keep your eyes peeled, you might see the blond beauty biking through Southampton Village, fluttering through a party, walking the beach or playing tennis. But much of her time out East is spent with her kids—nine of them between her and her husband—and taking in the calmness of the country. ✦
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